Re: Stumped on editfiles problem

[Mark Burgess]

On 26 Aug, Daniel Pittman wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Mark Burgess wrote:
>> The main reason for not "just going ahead and doing this" is that
>> there are sometimes conflixt between different regex packages that
>> cause neither of them to work, and lots og segmentation faults.
> 
> *nod*  This was one of the most painful points when I had to ensure
> our software was portable to pretty much every Unix system on earth,
> at a previous job.
> 
> One of the main reasons that I suggest PCRE is that it is very widely
> used in software that is extremely portable, so a fair few of the
> rough edges are gone by now.
> 
>> I do not know about the PCRE, but I think it sound like something
>> we should look into. Do you have a link to it?
> 
> The link was suggested by another poster, but <http://www.pcre.org/>
> 
> The licensing of it would allow for a bundled copy in the cfengine
> sources, which is something that a few packages have done, making it
> easier to deal with -- your users don't have to install it by hand.
> 
>        Daniel
> 


Good, I shall look into this as time permits. Semester has
exploded here(!) :)

M

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